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iraq and afghanistan there is always those bursts of extreme violence that rattle you. i think in the balance, though, somalia and chad have been my, the most difficult places to cover. personally and professionally. >> host: how did you get started in this line of work? >> guest: in 2004 and 2005 i was, i was a full-time political reporter in columbia, south carolina, for the local free times newspaper. and if war is boring, then peace is way worse. and it was driving me nuts sitting in on county council meetings and things like ordinances. so i had an opportunity to embed with the national guard in early 2005, took it, realized not only could i enjoy it, but i could do it. so i quit my job and began freelancing from conflict zones full time. >> host: 202 is the area code, 585-3885 in the east and central time zones, 585-3886 for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zones. where was the last place you've been? >> guest: i just got back from congo, and the artist on "war is boring," matt, he and i are going to collaborate on an entire graphic novel -- >> host:
iraq and afghanistan there is always those bursts of extreme violence that rattle you. i think in the balance, though, somalia and chad have been my, the most difficult places to cover. personally and professionally. >> host: how did you get started in this line of work? >> guest: in 2004 and 2005 i was, i was a full-time political reporter in columbia, south carolina, for the local free times newspaper. and if war is boring, then peace is way worse. and it was driving me nuts...
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, you have a stable afghanistan, where you're working to make sure pakistan -- we are working to see less proliferation. these are the aims of president obama's policy. i don't think there's much that i've seen in the disclosure, that he knows nothing else that suggests that that is anytin
, you have a stable afghanistan, where you're working to make sure pakistan -- we are working to see less proliferation. these are the aims of president obama's policy. i don't think there's much that i've seen in the disclosure, that he knows nothing else that suggests that that is anytin
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one of the things about the war's we have got accustomed to with vietnam, iraq, afghanistan is they are fraught mostly and there are very few among fed dead and wounded who were sensa and daughters of ceos, senators, members of congress or anything like that. it was the exact opposite and avert -- first world war the death toll fell proportionally higher on the upper class. the main reason for that was it was customary four sons of the upper class and aristocracy to have military careers. one major reason for this is that armies are not only there to fight wars against other countries but to maintain order at home. the 19th century was a tumultuous time in europe so was yearly 20th century and european armies were used to break strikes with the british army put down rebellions in ireland and so therefore the officer was generally reserved for those of the upper class is meeting when the country's went to war in 1914 come in the upper class is suffer the enormous toll. for example,, for the 30 graduates of the 10 killed in a single day, the first day of the battle in 1916 come the men wh
one of the things about the war's we have got accustomed to with vietnam, iraq, afghanistan is they are fraught mostly and there are very few among fed dead and wounded who were sensa and daughters of ceos, senators, members of congress or anything like that. it was the exact opposite and avert -- first world war the death toll fell proportionally higher on the upper class. the main reason for that was it was customary four sons of the upper class and aristocracy to have military careers. one...
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but the united nations says nato took over the afghanistan campaign. and there we find another find of the coffee out. it turns out -- caveat. it turns out some allies simply do not wish to make more where there were no shooting battles. some did it one to fight unless they have helicopters there were all of these rules than pretty soon we started to see the folks who wanted to send soldiers out to the field to have almost insulting checklist so this starts to develop in buy the way i am very careful when a make a statement about the caveat because i don't mean in any way to cut down on the bravery of the troops who are helping us americans out there. and the germans are not very willing to fight because of a historical precedent. it is very difficult for the germans to get over second world war history. please don't and feud any other motive into that. so now you have a copy ought with afghanistan where we're not prepared to use the allies because it is a different kind of four in technology have left them behind and estonia started to do something th
but the united nations says nato took over the afghanistan campaign. and there we find another find of the coffee out. it turns out -- caveat. it turns out some allies simply do not wish to make more where there were no shooting battles. some did it one to fight unless they have helicopters there were all of these rules than pretty soon we started to see the folks who wanted to send soldiers out to the field to have almost insulting checklist so this starts to develop in buy the way i am very...
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with iraq, coming to afghanistan. these days, iraq is a forgotten subject in the media. nobody cares about it. it's hard to get people interested, and i'm grateful to see a large crowd here. afghanistan, because there's more americans there. when americans are dying, a country is in the news a little bit more. i maintain we can't understand what's happening in afghanistan or the americans think they are doing in afghanistan without understanding what happened in iraq and what they think happened in iraq. i'd like to start about a discussion about iraq and the implications about afghanistan. the narrative which these days is impossible to challenge is that iraq was going fairly poorly because of poor planning, and then in 2006 you had the bombing, al-qaeda and iraq blue up the shrine north the baghdad and all hell broke lease and civil war started and iraq was falling apart until david petraeus arrived and saved the day, the new american hero, and now he's going to save the world in afghanistan using the same tactics,
with iraq, coming to afghanistan. these days, iraq is a forgotten subject in the media. nobody cares about it. it's hard to get people interested, and i'm grateful to see a large crowd here. afghanistan, because there's more americans there. when americans are dying, a country is in the news a little bit more. i maintain we can't understand what's happening in afghanistan or the americans think they are doing in afghanistan without understanding what happened in iraq and what they think...
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and say, well, how do we get afghanistan to look like denmark? it doesn't work very well. [laughter] part of the reason i began to realize was that we don't understand how denmark got to be denmark. i actually have had a visiting professorship at argos university in denmark, so i've been going to denmark for the last few years, and most deans have no idea how denmark got to be denmark. [laughter] it struck me that there's not a basic book you can go to to see where political institutions came from. i didn't see one, so i decided to write it, and that's how we got the book that i produced, so i also did not want to write a book on the origins of politics that told this traditional eurocentric story, not because i'm opposed to england or the west, but i think it's a distortion, and it's one that's been taught still in a lot of the discourse that really begins can karl marx as the present england. this is what you realize when you learn something about the history of england is that it is a very peculiar country in a number of ways i'll explain to y
and say, well, how do we get afghanistan to look like denmark? it doesn't work very well. [laughter] part of the reason i began to realize was that we don't understand how denmark got to be denmark. i actually have had a visiting professorship at argos university in denmark, so i've been going to denmark for the last few years, and most deans have no idea how denmark got to be denmark. [laughter] it struck me that there's not a basic book you can go to to see where political institutions came...
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well, you still don't see a wounded civilian on any of the network news programs whether in afghanistan or iraq. the pressure worked because all of these companies, you know, were depending on the bush administration to give them new legislation which they wanted, and namely to, you know, allow people to own a newspaper and a tv station in the same town. bush was about to do that when a few ngo's like free press and other organizations began to raise the alarm and the people on the right, interestingly enough, saw there was a danger here, and within a couple of months, there were 3 million letters sent to washington, not congress, which is unheard of in american politics, and bush had to pull back, and so the networks were not rewarded as they had hoped for the support they had given to the iraqi war, but that's, you know, that's ultimately -- that's, you know, the that's the end point when talking about the media in politics. you end up having a situation where horrible things happen because there's no one around to say, wait a minute, these guys are lying to us. there was a few papers
well, you still don't see a wounded civilian on any of the network news programs whether in afghanistan or iraq. the pressure worked because all of these companies, you know, were depending on the bush administration to give them new legislation which they wanted, and namely to, you know, allow people to own a newspaper and a tv station in the same town. bush was about to do that when a few ngo's like free press and other organizations began to raise the alarm and the people on the right,...
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afghanistan, kashmir, somalia and the local politics local marginal was a shin and reconciling local freedom and the sooner we abandon the idea that there is a global force driving and motivating these things the sooner we get to a solution. >> [laughter] >> i am a student at the lbj and i m generation x. [laughter] forgive me for not being generation y but it seems to me you are being dismissive of old school and do not parse out the priorities of the new decentralize cooperative model. corporations have an allegiance to their shareholders nations are the department of state has the legions to the citizenry of united states and iran not separating whose policies take precedence who is the decision maker when all parties don't agree? put that out more i would appreciate it what does anyone actors year get precedence over another? what is the americans solution to do with the situation? to be prioritized over another actor's you? take the millennium development goals as a good example ratified by all member states by 2015 we should achieve xyz targets to curb incidence of hunger and p
afghanistan, kashmir, somalia and the local politics local marginal was a shin and reconciling local freedom and the sooner we abandon the idea that there is a global force driving and motivating these things the sooner we get to a solution. >> [laughter] >> i am a student at the lbj and i m generation x. [laughter] forgive me for not being generation y but it seems to me you are being dismissive of old school and do not parse out the priorities of the new decentralize cooperative...
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these days probably iraq and/or afghanistan will make it onto the front page, if not both of those may be human or somali or some other rivalry, india, pakistan, china, japan. you name it and it will be on the front page. i think it is safe to say that if you pick up a paper to mark a more debate the headline is not going to be all quiet on the u.s.-canadian border. if you pick up a newspaper in paris it is not going to be all quiet on the franco-german boundary. it is self evident why that is the case. is peace breaks out nothing happens. when war breaks out a lot happens. there is noise, emotion, color. everybody sends cameras and journalists. so to some extend it is reasonable that we pay a lot of attention to war and little attention to peace. obviously people go see movies, spend $11.50 or whatever it is these days to see a movie about world war ii, but your not going to pay $11.50 to see a movie today about the franco-german relationship. all you see if you have a camera at the border are some sheep grazing. that is because that border is long a set of bloodshed had has lost its
these days probably iraq and/or afghanistan will make it onto the front page, if not both of those may be human or somali or some other rivalry, india, pakistan, china, japan. you name it and it will be on the front page. i think it is safe to say that if you pick up a paper to mark a more debate the headline is not going to be all quiet on the u.s.-canadian border. if you pick up a newspaper in paris it is not going to be all quiet on the franco-german boundary. it is self evident why that is...
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then let's move on to afghanistan. there came a time when it -- by the way, if you have not read about the account of what a few hundred special forces and armed cia people did in a few weeks in afghanistan after a sit-in for 11th, it is really worth reading. basically destroyed the camps, just a few hundred of them, including some wonderful cavalry horse charges. it's quite a story. but, in 2003 in the united nations says we need to know start stabilizing afghanistan. native took over the afghanistan campaign. and there we find yet another fault line developing. vendettas of fall line whose so-called caveat. some european allies simply did not wish to make war. it wanted areas where there were no shootings. others didn't want to fight at night. some didn't want to fight unless they have helicopters and so on. there were all these roles. we started to see folks who wanted to send soldiers out into the field consulting checklists to see what soldiers you could send out and what you could not. so this starts to develop.
then let's move on to afghanistan. there came a time when it -- by the way, if you have not read about the account of what a few hundred special forces and armed cia people did in a few weeks in afghanistan after a sit-in for 11th, it is really worth reading. basically destroyed the camps, just a few hundred of them, including some wonderful cavalry horse charges. it's quite a story. but, in 2003 in the united nations says we need to know start stabilizing afghanistan. native took over the...
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, but you have a stable afghanistan, where you're working to make sure that pakistan is free of terrorism, where you're working to see less nuclear proliferation. these are the aims of president obama's policy, and i don't think there's much that i've seen in the disclosure of the e-mails and everything else that suggests that that is anything other than the wish of the americans to achieve. but, obviously, there are embarrassments for me and for other people in some of the things that are said, and you've just got to accept that. >> sir. >> hi, mr. prime minister. my name is -- [inaudible] and i come from china. and it's really a great honor for me to have a chance to ask you a question. and as you know, as an emerging market with great potential, chinese economy is growing really fast. so my question is, how will you comment on china's role on the -- china's role on the road of recovery, and how will you comment your personal experience with chinese leader in china? thank you. >> i don't think there's any country that did more to stimulate its economy to keep the world economy as a whol
, but you have a stable afghanistan, where you're working to make sure that pakistan is free of terrorism, where you're working to see less nuclear proliferation. these are the aims of president obama's policy, and i don't think there's much that i've seen in the disclosure of the e-mails and everything else that suggests that that is anything other than the wish of the americans to achieve. but, obviously, there are embarrassments for me and for other people in some of the things that are...
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the world where you are working for peace in the middle east and working to get your troops out of afghanistan that you have a stable of can stand where you are working to insure pakistan is free of terrorism, where you are working to see list nuclear proliferation. these are the aides of president obama's policy and i don't think there's much ahead seen in the disclosure of the e-mails and everything else that suggest that is anything other than the wish of the americans to achieve, but obviously they are in their response for me and other people and some of the things i you said you just have to accept that. >> [inaudible] and as you know, as the emerging market has great potential, chinese economy is growing really sparse. so my question is how will you comments chia's role on the road of recovery and how will you commend your personal experience with chinese leaders and china? thank you. >> i don't think that there is any country that did more to stimulate this economy to keep the world economy as a whole moving forward them to china. if you look at the figures the amount of extra construc
the world where you are working for peace in the middle east and working to get your troops out of afghanistan that you have a stable of can stand where you are working to insure pakistan is free of terrorism, where you are working to see list nuclear proliferation. these are the aides of president obama's policy and i don't think there's much ahead seen in the disclosure of the e-mails and everything else that suggest that is anything other than the wish of the americans to achieve, but...
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i think that's what's going on in afghanistan now. there was something in iraq in the awakening of the sunnis to the rest of the country, the idea that this is a tribal battle but the americans are not going to be the strongest try. i think that is something that is now being impressed upon the various elements, the taliban and others in afghanistan. but, of course, that is in the middle of a huge complex, building, helping, developing projects that really is designed to one big grand strategic thing. were every look in the middle east, and that is to shore up the strength, the responsiveness of the state. wherever we are looking whether it is with iraq or iran today, or afghanistan, to prevent pakistan from continuing to fail. the idea of a two-state solution for israel and palestine, and they are all within the concept of this international state. that is, we don't have strong response of state. things are going in the wrong direction. >> host: what i see on the ground, and i travel often to afghanistan, is to be honest, with all th
i think that's what's going on in afghanistan now. there was something in iraq in the awakening of the sunnis to the rest of the country, the idea that this is a tribal battle but the americans are not going to be the strongest try. i think that is something that is now being impressed upon the various elements, the taliban and others in afghanistan. but, of course, that is in the middle of a huge complex, building, helping, developing projects that really is designed to one big grand strategic...
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these days is the rock and/or afghanistan on to the front page. if not both of those, maybe yemen or somalia or some other rivalry, india, pakistan, china, japan. you name it and it will be on the front page. i think it's safe to say that if you pick up your paper tomorrow morning, whether it's the local paper or new york times or street journal the headline is not going to be all quiet on the u. s-canadian border. if you pick up a newspaper in paris it's not going to be all quiet on the franco-german boundary. and it is sort of self evident why that is the case. that is that when peace breaks out, nothing happens. when war breaks out of what happens. there is noise, there is a motion, there is color. everybody since cameras and journalists. so to some extent it is reasonable that we pay a lot of attention to war and little attention to peace. obviously people go to see movies, spend $11.50 on average is these days to see a movie about world war two, but you are not going to pay $11.50 to see a movie today about the franco-german relationship beca
these days is the rock and/or afghanistan on to the front page. if not both of those, maybe yemen or somalia or some other rivalry, india, pakistan, china, japan. you name it and it will be on the front page. i think it's safe to say that if you pick up your paper tomorrow morning, whether it's the local paper or new york times or street journal the headline is not going to be all quiet on the u. s-canadian border. if you pick up a newspaper in paris it's not going to be all quiet on the...
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afghanistan to look like denmark? it doesn't look that way. part of the reason i began to realize what we don't understand how denmark got to denmark. i had a visiting professorship in denmark. i have been going there the last few years and i'd tell you that most danes don't know how denmark got to be denmark. as a political scientist there ought to be a basic book that says where political institutions come from. i didn't see one so i decided to write it. i also did not want to write a book on the origins of politics that told the traditional eurocentric or a low centric story. not because i am opposed to england or the west, but it is a distortion. and one that has been taught in a lot of the discourse. it really begins with karl marx who sees england as the model for modernization. england at present is everybody's future is something karl marx said. what you realize when you learn about the history of england, it is a very peculiar country in a number of ways that i will explain and to expect other countries to re
afghanistan to look like denmark? it doesn't look that way. part of the reason i began to realize what we don't understand how denmark got to denmark. i had a visiting professorship in denmark. i have been going there the last few years and i'd tell you that most danes don't know how denmark got to be denmark. as a political scientist there ought to be a basic book that says where political institutions come from. i didn't see one so i decided to write it. i also did not want to write a book on...
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services delivered efficiently and we have a vision of denmark and the back of our heads then we go to afghanistan how we get it to look like denmark? that doesn't look very well and part of the reason i began to realize is we don't understand how denmark to denmark. i have of visiting professorship there so i have been going there the last few years and the danes have no idea how it got to be denmark so it strikes me as a political scientist to see where political institutions come from so that is why we have the book that i produced. i did not want to write a book on the origins of politics that talks about the anglo centric story not because i am opposed to england or the west but it is the distortion that has been taught in a lot of the discourse that begins with carl marks the model for modernization and that is everybody's future and what you realize when you learn something is that it is a very peculiar country in the ways that i will explain and to expect other countries to replicate any other path is highly unrealistic and in fact,, in my view, it was china, not that it was not the first
services delivered efficiently and we have a vision of denmark and the back of our heads then we go to afghanistan how we get it to look like denmark? that doesn't look very well and part of the reason i began to realize is we don't understand how denmark to denmark. i have of visiting professorship there so i have been going there the last few years and the danes have no idea how it got to be denmark so it strikes me as a political scientist to see where political institutions come from so...
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countries like algeria, burundi, sudan, but also in my book news from kosovo, bosnia, from iraq and afghanistan. >> they come through formal refugee resettlement program through the united nations and then their pastor to care of resettlement agencies that handle the relocation and help them a foothold in this country and those are organizations like the rescue committee and other nongovernment organizations. >> how do those resettlement programs work exactly? >> basically agencies get a safe and worry budget for refugee families and the government admits some assorted hands them over to these agencies and theoretically the agency is fine at home for them, place to live, try to upsell its job placement, possibly language skills. it's a lot of debate about how well the agencies actually do that. but they're pretty low on resources. there's not a lot of resources given to the organization better resettling refugees refugees in the country. >> tell me about the town of clarkson, georgia. >> clarkston is a fascinating town. it's a little over a square mile am not perfect circle and it was basically
countries like algeria, burundi, sudan, but also in my book news from kosovo, bosnia, from iraq and afghanistan. >> they come through formal refugee resettlement program through the united nations and then their pastor to care of resettlement agencies that handle the relocation and help them a foothold in this country and those are organizations like the rescue committee and other nongovernment organizations. >> how do those resettlement programs work exactly? >> basically...
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is their anyone who plausibly believes we would have been in iraq past 2,004 or we would still be in afghanistan >> that's what i just said. this is a debate we can actually have because i think it's, you know, you can make an argument, at the same time i -- it's the kind of academic question. i don't feel it's going to happen. >> but your great-grandfather would say we have to have these. islamic academic arguments, g maybe. >> don't go pleading fdr on me. >> yeah, you know, one of the things to remember about the brothers and looking at the story is valuable is they were really working out how to answer some of these questions and there was an urgency because the new questions and they felt them and these are questions we just don't feel the kind of tension between the responsibilities of individual, responsibility as a citizen, efiks versus morality, the sound academic terms but@ when it came down to it's like are you going to die for your country, are you going to change society in such a way that it's not as equal or unjust we have huge structural problems in thiñ country. our property ri
is their anyone who plausibly believes we would have been in iraq past 2,004 or we would still be in afghanistan >> that's what i just said. this is a debate we can actually have because i think it's, you know, you can make an argument, at the same time i -- it's the kind of academic question. i don't feel it's going to happen. >> but your great-grandfather would say we have to have these. islamic academic arguments, g maybe. >> don't go pleading fdr on me. >> yeah, you...
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and british muslims going abroad to fight and trained under al-qaeda banner in somalia, yemen, and afghanistan and also to note that the very successful recruitment of talented u.s. citizen muslims to run media operations targeting muslim communities in the english-speaking world. .. indolent once the be even with these differences, with her, facilities overseas missionary activities or in the indispensable aid to al qaeda's organizational, military and media activities. threat expatriate saudi preachers, islamic ngos and direct funding for local muslim organizations, the saudis have created muslim communities in most areas of the world that are alienated and even -- alienated from and even hateful towards the west. and so these communities are contingent environments for hosting al qaeda presence. in the balkans in india and bangladesh, in the north caucasus in south asia, and north america and europe and in sub-saharan africa these preachers, ngos and doses of saudi cash have for decades prepared the ground for al qaeda and its allies. to the saudis realize this? of course they do. we must a
and british muslims going abroad to fight and trained under al-qaeda banner in somalia, yemen, and afghanistan and also to note that the very successful recruitment of talented u.s. citizen muslims to run media operations targeting muslim communities in the english-speaking world. .. indolent once the be even with these differences, with her, facilities overseas missionary activities or in the indispensable aid to al qaeda's organizational, military and media activities. threat expatriate saudi...
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. >> you think about demonstrations against such wars as the one in afghanistan or in libya or in iraq or elsewhere. no, i am afraid you are quite right. diesels are considered sort of sad. one protest makes protest to get a job or to get good schools, but one doesn't protest sufficiently against arms, weapons. the only older did a marvelous job, handicap international who put this strongly against media minds against personnel mines. but that's a very minor problem after all. and you are quite right. it is taken for granted now that while there are wars, what can we do quite a pen that is where perhaps we have to look at the basic reform of the united nations. i always come back to me dear united nations. the united nations were set up for human rights, but also for the preservation of peace. and when wars break out, while they are at the blue helmets. my friend brian burkett was the one who gave them the name blue helmets. i always recall the story when the first blue helmets were sent to this today near east. he said to his friends he was in charge of that. he said how are we going
. >> you think about demonstrations against such wars as the one in afghanistan or in libya or in iraq or elsewhere. no, i am afraid you are quite right. diesels are considered sort of sad. one protest makes protest to get a job or to get good schools, but one doesn't protest sufficiently against arms, weapons. the only older did a marvelous job, handicap international who put this strongly against media minds against personnel mines. but that's a very minor problem after all. and you are...
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how are we going to get afghanistan to look like denmark? and it doesn't work very well. and part of the reason that i began to realize was that we don't understand how denmark got to be denmark. i had a visiting professorship, so i've been going. most danes have no idea how denmark got to be denmark. it struck me as a political scientist, this ought to be a book you can go to to say where did political institutions come from. i didn't see one. so i decided to write it. that's why we get the book that i've produced. so i also did not want to write a book on the origins of politics that told this traditional eurocentric or anglocentric story. not because i'm opposed to england or the west. it's a distortion. it's been one that's taught in a lot of the discourse that really beginning with carl marx that sees england as the model for modernization. england's present is everybody's future. this is what carl marx said. what you realize when you something about the history of england, it is a very peculiar country in a number of ways that i will explain. to expect other countri
how are we going to get afghanistan to look like denmark? and it doesn't work very well. and part of the reason that i began to realize was that we don't understand how denmark got to be denmark. i had a visiting professorship, so i've been going. most danes have no idea how denmark got to be denmark. it struck me as a political scientist, this ought to be a book you can go to to say where did political institutions come from. i didn't see one. so i decided to write it. that's why we get the...
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that you read most days of the week you will find one if not to stories about pork probably a iraq for afghanistan will make it to the front page and maybe even who or somalia or other by paul pakistan are japan, you name it. it will be on the front page. it is safe to say that if you pick up the paper tomorrow morning whether the local paper or the "wall street journal" the headline will not be all is quiet on u.s.-canadian border. in paris it will not be quiet on the german front and it is self-evident why that is the case. when peace breaks out, and nothing happens. when war breaks out, of what happens. there is no as coming emotion, and to some extent it is reasonable we pay a lot of attention to war and little attention to peace per obviously people go to see movies spend $11.50 or whatever it is to see a movie about world war ii but you will not pay $11.50 to see a movie today about franco-german relationship is all use the is a camera at the border are sheep grazing. that is because it has lost its relevance as a geopolitical boundary line. if we get in our cars tonight a 30 and head north
that you read most days of the week you will find one if not to stories about pork probably a iraq for afghanistan will make it to the front page and maybe even who or somalia or other by paul pakistan are japan, you name it. it will be on the front page. it is safe to say that if you pick up the paper tomorrow morning whether the local paper or the "wall street journal" the headline will not be all is quiet on u.s.-canadian border. in paris it will not be quiet on the german front...
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to fighting in afghanistan. >> guest: yes, sir. he worked very hard from 1996 when he declared war on us until 2001, and i think we frustrated him on several occasions. he wanted us on the ground in afghanistan so they could apply -- they, the mujahideen, the taliban people -- they could apply the same military force against us that they applied against the red army in the 1980s. believing that we were a much weaker opponent than the soviets and that a fairly limited number of deaths would persuade us to leave eventually. and so the attacks on us in saudi arabia in 1996 and 1995, in east africa in 1998, on the uss cole in 1999 were all designed, but failed, to get us into afghanistan. but 9/11 did the trick for them. >> host: in your upcoming book, mr. scheuer, you also talk about some of the other books that have come out on bin laden and his family. what do you think of those? lawrence wright, etc. >> guest: i think many of those books are very worthwhile, and what i tried to do is to take a different tack than those books so i w
to fighting in afghanistan. >> guest: yes, sir. he worked very hard from 1996 when he declared war on us until 2001, and i think we frustrated him on several occasions. he wanted us on the ground in afghanistan so they could apply -- they, the mujahideen, the taliban people -- they could apply the same military force against us that they applied against the red army in the 1980s. believing that we were a much weaker opponent than the soviets and that a fairly limited number of deaths...
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obviously in afghanistan yet many americans that i ran could hit. they could disrupt oil in the region and halts shipping and they can activate shia groups in bahrain and kuwait. i think what you see though is a preemptive israeli strike on hezbollah and israel would take advantage of this to strike hezbollah. certainly, sunni regimes in the gulf and kuwait and bahrain and saudi arabia would actively crack down on their shia population more than they are to have and we have seen that in a raid already which would only increase shia anger and i think a tremendous increase in june aco -- shia violence. iraq would be uncomfortable with it because the iraqi regime might not be iranian but the sunnis have a good relationship with iran. so i think it would be a catastrophe. if the iranian military attack the iraqi military it would not stand down. millions of people in iran are hoping that the government is destroyed by the americans away think it did in much of iraq at one point. so you would see a regional conflict developing. i think it is very unlikel
obviously in afghanistan yet many americans that i ran could hit. they could disrupt oil in the region and halts shipping and they can activate shia groups in bahrain and kuwait. i think what you see though is a preemptive israeli strike on hezbollah and israel would take advantage of this to strike hezbollah. certainly, sunni regimes in the gulf and kuwait and bahrain and saudi arabia would actively crack down on their shia population more than they are to have and we have seen that in a raid...
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not using for afghanistan. and i think pakistan will be the way of afghanistan in that aid will be cut. we're going to go back to the sort -- just like what happened in the '80s when we cut ties a little bit, and then we're going to see the fallout of that. pakistan is a much more troubling country than afghanistan because of the nuclear weapons issue, although i do believe those are safe, and the fact they created this sort of frankenstein enemy that is coming back on them and you're seeing extremely sophisticated attacks on the establishment. >> when we turned away from pakistan the last time, it was not a nuclear armed country. >> it was not. >> well, we have about 15 minutes left, so i thought we could take some questions from the crowd, if anybody has something they want to bring up. if you can come up to the microphone. >> kim, what made you decide in the first place you wanted to be a foreign correspondent? >> that's a good question. and i'm unlike a lot of foreign correspondents. a lot of foreign corres
not using for afghanistan. and i think pakistan will be the way of afghanistan in that aid will be cut. we're going to go back to the sort -- just like what happened in the '80s when we cut ties a little bit, and then we're going to see the fallout of that. pakistan is a much more troubling country than afghanistan because of the nuclear weapons issue, although i do believe those are safe, and the fact they created this sort of frankenstein enemy that is coming back on them and you're seeing...
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one of the things that we have gotten accustomed to in this country in recent years -- vietnam, iraq, afghanistan -- is that they are fought mostly by the poor. there are very, very few among the dead and wounded in the those three wars who have been sons or daughters of ceos, senators, members of congress, anything like that. it was the exact opposite in the first world war. the death toll actually fell proportionately higher on the upper classes. and the main reason for that was that it was customary for sons of the upper classes, sons of the air strock rah si to have military careers. and i think a major reason for this is that armies are not only there to fight wars against other countries, they're there to maintain order at home. the 19th century was a very tumultuous time in europe, so was the early 20th century. many of the european armies were used to break strikes or the british army, you know, put down tenant farmer rebellions in ireland. and so, therefore, officering the army was something that was generally reserved for people in the upper classes. this meant that when these countries
one of the things that we have gotten accustomed to in this country in recent years -- vietnam, iraq, afghanistan -- is that they are fought mostly by the poor. there are very, very few among the dead and wounded in the those three wars who have been sons or daughters of ceos, senators, members of congress, anything like that. it was the exact opposite in the first world war. the death toll actually fell proportionately higher on the upper classes. and the main reason for that was that it was...
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>> it comes from afghanistan. there is a phrase that somebody had said to me just before i went into afghanistan. every man in this village is a liar. it derives from an old greek paradox where the person who says it -- i think it's actually all the concretans are liars but the person who says it is actually a creten. it's a logical impossibility if he's lying, he's telling the truth, if he's lying, he's telling the truth. i used to as a title because it seemed to me an apt description of the elusive description of truth and war and the difficulty of reporting in a war zone. "village" is the global village as well. there wasn't really anyone who came away with their hands clean from these wars. everybody was lying to some extent. >> where did this picture on the cover come from? >> you'll have to ask my publishers. i actually don't know about it and they showed it to me and i believe it was beautiful and i believe it's afghanistan just judging but i don't know. >> if everyone reads this books will they learn about
>> it comes from afghanistan. there is a phrase that somebody had said to me just before i went into afghanistan. every man in this village is a liar. it derives from an old greek paradox where the person who says it -- i think it's actually all the concretans are liars but the person who says it is actually a creten. it's a logical impossibility if he's lying, he's telling the truth, if he's lying, he's telling the truth. i used to as a title because it seemed to me an apt description of...
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oh, i think it's an absolutely interesting parallel between vietnam and the current war in afghanistan because, you know, you think about world war world war ii, i mean, my father, my uncles they all fought, and it's like, are we making progress? be yeah, we took guadall,
oh, i think it's an absolutely interesting parallel between vietnam and the current war in afghanistan because, you know, you think about world war world war ii, i mean, my father, my uncles they all fought, and it's like, are we making progress? be yeah, we took guadall,
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his aide, now a lieutenant colonel is at our house for dinner commanding a battalion in afghanistan now and he is home on leave briefly and at that time ana, 2003, he says he's the most competitive man on the planet. [laughter] that's true. it's certainly true, and it's a big characteristic to have somebody who doesn't like to lose. he's a pretty good listener. i notice that from the beginning and nothing i have seen since then has changed my mind. he would listen to the captain of tactical led by scott to fight the 101st airborne for example. there's no imperial ken david as he sometimes divisive recalled him and what we are seeing now is the ultimate test think has got to fight in afghanistan that isn't like the fight in iraq. he's using the persian iraq and afghanistan but it is a different place as he would be the first to say. there was a timetable and the clock was ticking. he would be 58-years-old next week. even he is tired and who can blame him? if you consider that he has been overseas in command, in combat twice as long as any general in world war ii and the american journal.
his aide, now a lieutenant colonel is at our house for dinner commanding a battalion in afghanistan now and he is home on leave briefly and at that time ana, 2003, he says he's the most competitive man on the planet. [laughter] that's true. it's certainly true, and it's a big characteristic to have somebody who doesn't like to lose. he's a pretty good listener. i notice that from the beginning and nothing i have seen since then has changed my mind. he would listen to the captain of tactical led...
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these days there's probably iraq or afghanistan will make it on to the front page. if not both of those, maybe yemen or sai -- somalia, or pakistan, china. you name it. it'll be on the front panel. it's safe to say whether you pick up the local paper or "wall street journal." the headline is not going to be all quiet on the u.s. canadian border. if you pick up a newspaper in paris, it's not going to be all quiet on the franco-german boundary. it's self-evident why that's the case. when peace breaks out, nothing happens. when war breaks out, lots happens. there's noise, there's emotion, there's color, everybody sends cameras and journalists. and so to come extent, it's reasonable that we pay a lot of attention to war and little attention to peace. obviously, people go to see movies spend $11.50 or whatever it is these days to see a movie about world war ii. but you are not going to pay $11.50 to see a movie today about the franco-german relationship because all you'd see if you had a camera at the border are some sheep grazing. and that's because that border long a s
these days there's probably iraq or afghanistan will make it on to the front page. if not both of those, maybe yemen or sai -- somalia, or pakistan, china. you name it. it'll be on the front panel. it's safe to say whether you pick up the local paper or "wall street journal." the headline is not going to be all quiet on the u.s. canadian border. if you pick up a newspaper in paris, it's not going to be all quiet on the franco-german boundary. it's self-evident why that's the case....
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. >> that he represents afghanistan. well-intentioned, bumbling, no clue how to do this. no clue about the cultural sensitivities. i am american and farouk -- he has to get what he can while he can. so he likes telling people i am a 3-dimensional character. where did you get that? i was telling him i am trying to make this not just one dimensional, you are three dimensional and refers to himself as a try dimensional character. >> tim mentioned the former prime minister of pakistan who has an interesting relationship or had an interesting relationship with him -- kim. he misinterpreted their relationship and her retelling history funny but also unsettling because the relationship a person might have with a source can be difficult so tell us briefly about that and the question is what has happened since then? have you heard from him? what is the upshot of this? >> we are getting married. for those who don't know the story i was front-page news in pakistan for a week. it took osama bin laden being killed to knock me off the
. >> that he represents afghanistan. well-intentioned, bumbling, no clue how to do this. no clue about the cultural sensitivities. i am american and farouk -- he has to get what he can while he can. so he likes telling people i am a 3-dimensional character. where did you get that? i was telling him i am trying to make this not just one dimensional, you are three dimensional and refers to himself as a try dimensional character. >> tim mentioned the former prime minister of pakistan...
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in afghanistan though, afghanistan is a political problem. it can only be solved politically. it's not a military problem where you can defeat the taliban. we have to recognize that negotiate with the taliban is the always solution. the problem though is that trade is gotten better. that might seem like it's a good thing, but these taliban commanders are the ones who have ties to both sides of the committee and our that for much more moderate. are able to be pressure by the community and the tribal elders. and upon have much more inside with the taliban commander in pakistan. by killing these guys you're replacing them with much younger more radical guys who don't have these ties and don't have the tiger tell you much, much harder to dig osha within. right now the taliban in afghanistan are totally different than taliban in pakistan. totally different from al qaeda. the taliban in afghanistan our afghani controlled, have afghan interest and goals. pakistani taliban are different of course find the pakistani government come in some places moving to a kind of. but you've only ha
in afghanistan though, afghanistan is a political problem. it can only be solved politically. it's not a military problem where you can defeat the taliban. we have to recognize that negotiate with the taliban is the always solution. the problem though is that trade is gotten better. that might seem like it's a good thing, but these taliban commanders are the ones who have ties to both sides of the committee and our that for much more moderate. are able to be pressure by the community and the...
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that doesn't have a strong government, that's able to enforce rules, you want to move to somalia or afghanistan or less developed country that cannot enforce rules on its own territory. somalia if you want to own not just an assault rifle when an rpg or a shoulder fired antiaircraft weapon, you are free to do. it's not a very happy society because it doesn't have institutions. that's the state. second is the rule of law. the rule of law is all about community rules of justice that are regarded as superior to the will of whoever happens to be running the government, whether that is a president, a prime minister, 18, monarch, whatever. the executive in the society doesn't feel that he or she can just make up the rules on the fly, whatever they want. they accepted implement a law that someone else makes. so that's the second set of important institutions. the '30s institution of accountability. today we associate those with democracy and elections. but that's not the only form of accountability. in any event, when accountability institutions were first put into place in 17th century england, the k
that doesn't have a strong government, that's able to enforce rules, you want to move to somalia or afghanistan or less developed country that cannot enforce rules on its own territory. somalia if you want to own not just an assault rifle when an rpg or a shoulder fired antiaircraft weapon, you are free to do. it's not a very happy society because it doesn't have institutions. that's the state. second is the rule of law. the rule of law is all about community rules of justice that are regarded...
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a first to know that there was a drought in afghanistan. it turns out that afghanistan is suffering the worst drought in living memory which is coincided with the whole nato project of nation building in afghanistan. and poppy uses 1/5 to 16 the amount of water that we requires given this drought, this very severe drought, the worst in living memory, it's really one
a first to know that there was a drought in afghanistan. it turns out that afghanistan is suffering the worst drought in living memory which is coincided with the whole nato project of nation building in afghanistan. and poppy uses 1/5 to 16 the amount of water that we requires given this drought, this very severe drought, the worst in living memory, it's really one
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in afghanistan, afghanistan is a political problem. at some point you have to recognize negotiating with the taliban dissolution. little taliban commanders might seem like a good thing but these taliban commanders of the ones who are much more moderate, able to be pressured by the community and tribal elders and also probably have more ties with the taliban commander in pakistan. you are replacing them with more radical guys who don't have these ties. it will be much harder to ago she with them and you are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy that they will be tied to al qaeda. the taliban in afghanistan are different from the taliban in pakistan. the taliban in afghanistan are afghan controlled. pakistani taliban a little bit different. in some cases more links to al qaeda. you only had in history one afghan who tried to attack the u.s.. he was tied to the pakistani taliban and lived his life in the u.s.. obviously to people in afghanistan. you have to recognize negotiating with them is the only solution. the hamid karzai government, n
in afghanistan, afghanistan is a political problem. at some point you have to recognize negotiating with the taliban dissolution. little taliban commanders might seem like a good thing but these taliban commanders of the ones who are much more moderate, able to be pressured by the community and tribal elders and also probably have more ties with the taliban commander in pakistan. you are replacing them with more radical guys who don't have these ties. it will be much harder to ago she with them...
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war in afghanistan." where did these come from? >> guest: you know, the firsts was the israel very palestine one -- israel-palestine one. we chose to name understandinghe the palestinian-israeli conflict to shake that up a little bit. that one came out of a project that had actually started several years earlier with colleagues of mine who had aske me if i would put together whati they called a primer as alled pamphlet. and and we weren't sure exactly what form it should take. we wanted just something that would be easily and accessible for people who are interested in the issue but didn't reallyis necessarily know anything about. it.ybe maybe because they're educatedwl people would be a little bitit embarrassed to admit they don't know some ofn the basice ba questions. who are the palestinians? many why are they there? are jews and israelis the sames thing? those kinds of basic questions. so i did this pamphlet. pam and then in discussing with it h very close friend and colleague of mine, my publisher wh
war in afghanistan." where did these come from? >> guest: you know, the firsts was the israel very palestine one -- israel-palestine one. we chose to name understandinghe the palestinian-israeli conflict to shake that up a little bit. that one came out of a project that had actually started several years earlier with colleagues of mine who had aske me if i would put together whati they called a primer as alled pamphlet. and and we weren't sure exactly what form it should take. we...
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so afghanistan. with pakistan, obviously very much in the news with bin laden killing. >> i wrote about it in the book, where he was killed. was a total shocker that he was there. >> what about the pakistani intelligence, what the secret intelligence didn't know. what effort will have on pakistan if any? >> you can't look at the i s i or the army, the eye as i is the top spy agency in pakistan. they pretty much control everything. there is a combination of the cia and the fbi and their focus is on what is happening inside their country. not necessarily what is outside the country. as journalists we would be followed. they would come to the wars. there are a couple funny scenes of them following us around. if we meet with an afghan or an indian than you are on their radar. in other words the i s i is pretty much everywhere in that country but it is not a top-down organization. is not as if they know what is going on below. they had different sort of cells working with different jihad groups to work ac
so afghanistan. with pakistan, obviously very much in the news with bin laden killing. >> i wrote about it in the book, where he was killed. was a total shocker that he was there. >> what about the pakistani intelligence, what the secret intelligence didn't know. what effort will have on pakistan if any? >> you can't look at the i s i or the army, the eye as i is the top spy agency in pakistan. they pretty much control everything. there is a combination of the cia and the fbi...
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in afghanistan -- afghanistan is a political problem income only be military. at some point they recognize to negotiate with the taliban as the solution. the problem though is petraeus has gotten better at killing mid-level taliban commanders. that may seem like a ticket and, but the taliban commanders are the one that have long-standing ties with the community, and therefore much for moderate, able to be pressured by the community, tribal lighters and they probably have much more with mullah omar, taliban commander in pakistan. by killing these guys, you're replacing them with much more younger, radical guys who don't have communal ties and it will be much, much harder to negotiate and you're creating a self-fulfilling prophecy that they'll be tied to al qaeda. right out of town and it can us and are totally different than taliban in pakistan. totally different from a panic at the taliban in afghanistan or afghan controls, afghan interesting goals. pakistani taliban are different of course in fighting the pakistan government and in some cases more linked to al
in afghanistan -- afghanistan is a political problem income only be military. at some point they recognize to negotiate with the taliban as the solution. the problem though is petraeus has gotten better at killing mid-level taliban commanders. that may seem like a ticket and, but the taliban commanders are the one that have long-standing ties with the community, and therefore much for moderate, able to be pressured by the community, tribal lighters and they probably have much more with mullah...
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he has been in the middle of the argument about whether we should come out of afghanistan next july and was to urge obama's to set the timetable, not a deadline and from what i can tell is still fighting the battle today. biden had other contributions in the senate he was a champion for violence against women act and the on the legislation to put more cops on the street and always trying to fight crime. he is not a knee-jerk liberal in any sense but in delaware he was against busing for the schools and melamine 10 school district. said he would antagonize some little democrats and he takes a liberal position pretty much across the board. i tried to make this biography definitive to go beyond a memoir that biden himself wrote to four years ago. it is not an authorized biography but i spent four and a half hours with buy the end in many interviews with him and his family especially his brother and sister and all three children. all of the allegations and setbacks are fully reported in the book. but i come down that with the will of a biden presidency, and nobody wants at this point* the w
he has been in the middle of the argument about whether we should come out of afghanistan next july and was to urge obama's to set the timetable, not a deadline and from what i can tell is still fighting the battle today. biden had other contributions in the senate he was a champion for violence against women act and the on the legislation to put more cops on the street and always trying to fight crime. he is not a knee-jerk liberal in any sense but in delaware he was against busing for the...
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iraq coming to afghanistan. iraq is a forgotten subject in the media nobody cares about it. it's hard to get people interested. i'm grateful to see a large crowd here. afghanistan a little bit more because there's more americans, so when americans are [inaudible] we can't understand what's happening in afghanistan with the americans think they're doing in afghanistan without understanding what happened in iraq and what they think gilpin in iraq so i would like to start with a discussion about iraq and the implications for afghanistan. the narrative which is impossible to challenge is that iraq was going fairly poorly because of poor planning and then in 2006 you had bombing al qaeda and iraq blew up the shrine north baghdadi and suddenly all hell broke loose in the war started in iraq is falling apart front office physically fit ph.d. general quote david petraeus arrived and saved the day of the new american hero and now he's going to save the day in afghanistan using the same brilliant tactics. but all that is
iraq coming to afghanistan. iraq is a forgotten subject in the media nobody cares about it. it's hard to get people interested. i'm grateful to see a large crowd here. afghanistan a little bit more because there's more americans, so when americans are [inaudible] we can't understand what's happening in afghanistan with the americans think they're doing in afghanistan without understanding what happened in iraq and what they think gilpin in iraq so i would like to start with a discussion about...
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afghanistan doesn't. and the fact that we try this one-size-fits-all approach, we're going to go in, we're going to wring in a government in a before bring in a government in a box. they even called it that, so demeaning. doesn't work. what are you going too far, a jumping jack box that the government pops out and says, here we are, we're the government now. surprise, that doesn't work. they don't have the loyalty of the population, they don't know what they're doing. these afghans who were brought in to be the local government in marjah, for example, the place that was supposed to be the practice for going after kandahar for u.s. troops, we're going to go after marjah, and we're going to clear it of the taliban, and then we're going to bring in the government in a box. well, the guy they brought in to be mayor had spent the years of war not living through the years of war or the years of taliban repression, he had spent those years in this germany. so what a surprise, he was the same tribal links as the
afghanistan doesn't. and the fact that we try this one-size-fits-all approach, we're going to go in, we're going to wring in a government in a before bring in a government in a box. they even called it that, so demeaning. doesn't work. what are you going too far, a jumping jack box that the government pops out and says, here we are, we're the government now. surprise, that doesn't work. they don't have the loyalty of the population, they don't know what they're doing. these afghans who were...
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>> not in afghanistan. but in most places they have electricity. >> you report he bought a $7,500 satellite telephone in new york. >> from a new york company. >> but abandoned the use of the satellite telephone. >> he banned it maybe personally. his aides may have used that same satellite phone. he's not stupid and he understood that the voice print, his voice print is distinctive and, you know, the satellite sweep looking for this voice and -- in 1997, his colleague in london said that bin laden was not chatting away on his satellite phone. he's been the subject of a number of rather serious assassination attempts by his native government, so he's very security conscious. >> looking back in the couple minutes we have left. >> yeah. >> how would you grade the media during this period of time, and all that you knew about this, have you often looked at the set or read an article and said, bunch of misinformation? >> i think overall the media is -- particularly after september 11, the media has done an amazing
>> not in afghanistan. but in most places they have electricity. >> you report he bought a $7,500 satellite telephone in new york. >> from a new york company. >> but abandoned the use of the satellite telephone. >> he banned it maybe personally. his aides may have used that same satellite phone. he's not stupid and he understood that the voice print, his voice print is distinctive and, you know, the satellite sweep looking for this voice and -- in 1997, his...
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personnel in iraq and in afghanistan. is that correct? did inigo beyond text? >> guest: he had this skill at doing it. he's a very clever man and not a bad writer. most of us would probably find it off-putting but he would create links to the latest carnage being killed in iraq and then they would have a gleeful commentary about i'm going to see roasted brains of u.s. soldiers and this and that and just kind of try to be funny and darkly humorous about it but this is kind of his style and he became probably one of the four or five most important waters in the islamic jihadists blogosphere and nobody knew who he was which was striking. >> host: nobody realized this was a pediatrician, doctor living in a median relatively secular relatively prosperous city. this will send someone who came in pakistan. so that's the bomber. let's take a step back. the personnel on the cia, the base was led by a woman named jennifer matthews, mother of three who lived in virginia not far from where we are now. she came along the way and the aftermath of this attack for a lot of cri
personnel in iraq and in afghanistan. is that correct? did inigo beyond text? >> guest: he had this skill at doing it. he's a very clever man and not a bad writer. most of us would probably find it off-putting but he would create links to the latest carnage being killed in iraq and then they would have a gleeful commentary about i'm going to see roasted brains of u.s. soldiers and this and that and just kind of try to be funny and darkly humorous about it but this is kind of his style and...
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>> or barack obama december 2009 saying he wanted to send more troops to afghanistan with the conneaut that the nation he wanted to build. but in some circles that is the dirty word pro that is not the military is supposed to be doing the training for the force complex that they train around but also what they pined for because it is simple and direct in your opponent wears a uniform. this is more difficult involving navigating differences come the barriers, and it has proven o lot harder than theory. >> about the pentagon and its role? >> pc robert gates his worries of the military could become 19th century victorian type that it tries to master of what of the chores. it is not there yet but there is a worry within the military establishment the pendulum may have swung too far in that direction that there's a need to come back to focus on the fundamentals. but mayor nonmilitary missions. more for the development agencies and therefore diplomats but aid workers are not necessarily trained is basically doing development work while being shot back. so rose seven on the department of stat
>> or barack obama december 2009 saying he wanted to send more troops to afghanistan with the conneaut that the nation he wanted to build. but in some circles that is the dirty word pro that is not the military is supposed to be doing the training for the force complex that they train around but also what they pined for because it is simple and direct in your opponent wears a uniform. this is more difficult involving navigating differences come the barriers, and it has proven o lot harder...